Talk:Cruiser

Discrepancy

"Even though both major fleets possessed warships of such classifications, the tactical philosophies of the two species were different. The Covenant, while possessing many different cruiser classifications, used carriers as the powerhouses of their fleets. The UNSC, on the other hand, used cruisers as their heaviest warships."

This makes absolutely no sense, aren't a powerhouse and a "heaviest ship" almost the same thing? I'm not entirely sure what we're going for here... Steve2frag 00:34, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

The Covenant use Carriers as the powerhouses, not Cruisers like the UNSC. -- Administrator Specops306 - Qur'a 'Morhek ^{Honour Light Your Way!} 01:25, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, okay. A subtle C-word difference. Thanks for clearing that up! Steve2frag 16:21, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

UNSC Cruisers Template

In the Template:UNSC Cruisers|UNSC Cruisers Template for the Halcyon-class , Marathon-class and Valiant-class cruisers, they appear to have their own lead ships linked presumably as how UNSC frigates have had their own lead ships, but even then, the UNSC frigate lead ships had their sources cited, I find it an inappropriate misuse of linking if it doesn't have an official source cited. I'm only bringing up this concern for the possible correction or deletion of 57 linked edits that lead to pages that don't exist. Bronze98 (talk) 06:40, 29 January 2014 (EST)

It has been suggested by Stephen Loftus (username ScaleMaster117) that each cruisers are named after their lead ships. It should be noted that this is a confirmation from a third-party who was involved in the process of editing the H4 Visual Guide. — subtank 12:56, 29 January 2014 (EST)

Hey, just saw this. Loftus here. It's standard form most of the world over, but relevant to us the US military follows the form that the first named ship of a new class of ship becomes the class name. When working on the Visual Guides (both of them but it wasn't apparent in the first book) it was 343 Industries' usage that they follow the same system as the US military in this regard, so the Halcyon-class cruiser was named for the first ship of that class built which would've been the UNSC Halcyon.

Now, from what I'm seeing in the article linked in this discussion, there are empty pages linked to these class ships. I would agree that if there's no reason to have a page for the UNSC Halcyon or UNSC Valiant, then fine, remove the links, but that does not negate that the class ships would still be the first off the line. Not a great example, but it's the same way that, say, Dr. Halsey doesn't have any official source or page number that tells you her gender is female, but it's apparent because we've seen her in the game or they use the pronoun "she" in the novels. You don't need the explicit mention to know it's still a canonical fact. So, when you see Charon-class frigate, you know the first ship that looked like the Halo 3 frigate was the UNSC Charon. -ScaleMaster117 (talk) 13:35, 29 January 2014 (EST)